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1 | Last part of Jonah | Jon 4:10 | EggeLind | 116322 | ||
The last few scriptures of Jonah are a bit unclear to me, if someone could explain them that would be great. | ||||||
2 | Last part of Jonah | Jon 4:10 | Sir Pent | 116323 | ||
My answer........................................................ Welcome to the forum Eggeland, God sends a prophet named Jonah to go preach to an evil city named Nineveh. Jonah tells the people there that God will destroy them because of their wickedness. The people of Nineveh beg God to forgive them and they stop doing the evil things. God mercifully decides to not destroy them after all. Jonah is very angry about this because he hates the people of Nineveh and wanted them to be destroyed. At the end of the book, Jonah has left the city of Nineveh and is waiting to see if the city of Nineveh will be destroyed after all. One day, God causes a plant to grow very quickly beside Jonah to give him shade and coolness. This makes Jonah very happy (Jon 4:6). Then God sends a worm to kill the plant, taking away Jonah's shade and making Jonah very upset (Jon 4:7-9). God then uses this as a lesson to teach Jonah why he spared the people of Nineveh. God points out that Jonah cared about the plant even though he hadn't invested any work to make it grow. How much more then does God care about the people of Nineveh (and all people), who he created and sustained (implied in: Jon 4:10-11). Because God loves people so much, that is why He wants to forgive them when they truly repent (Jon 4:2). |
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